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Sunday, October 17, 2004
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BRAND SPANKIN' NEW
The wait is over! Goodbye world of /temp. Welcome back TheModernAge.org!
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
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YOUR TWO HOT OPTIONS FOR TOMORROW NIGHT
Join us at the Bowery Ballroom for Inouk, VHS/Beta, Sondre Lerche, and The Concretes. Or join Kemado Records (info below):
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
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BE QUICK AND GET IT OVER WITH
Before we forget, some basic stuff about the Ryan Adams show we went to on Oct 1. It was an ok show, there was no 15-minute rambling about his lover "water" but when the crazy lady who was sitting in the center section (you know, the one who got up after every song and did a dance) made it to the front of the stage to give Ryan a rose, he took it, thanked her for it and said, "I'm going to go home and give this to my boo." Yes, Ryan Adams said the word "boo".
He also talked about things like how he was up the night before smoking pot when he turned on the TV and what did he see? Ghostbusters. He continued to say stuff about how great of a movie Ghostbusters was. Ok...
 He sang the hits like "New York, New York", "When the Stars Go Blue", "Rescue Blues", but he also sung one of our favorite songs off of Love Is Hell, "I See Monsters", during the first encore. For the second encore he played "Wharf Rat" by the Greatful Dead...which lasted FOREVER. (Or was it the other way around?)
He did some songs just on the piano, some just him on the guitar, and the rockin' ones with the full band.
The stage was dressed up like a high school prom, silver mylar baloons were lined up all along the back of the stage. The disco ball was activated. There was a large, round balloon on either side of the stage, and it was lit by the glow of the innertubed Christmas lights that ran along the piano frame and front microphone stand.
Midway through the set, Ryan said something to the lighting guy about turning the lights down... he obviously was still nursing a hangover... as he was wearing sunglasses indoors--with all lights out except the purple ones.
The guy in back of us was smoking pot.
He joined the opening band's set under the moniker "Lazy Brown". He wore a felt hat and his usual Canadian tuxedo. He wore a light blue button down shirt with something red on the right shoulder.
Monday, October 11, 2004
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SHOULD WE LOOK SADDER?
This past Saturday we saw Morrissey for the first time ever, courtesy of Imran. We sat next to Ultra, and she stood up and cheered, giggled, and squealed sporadically. We now love Morrissey. We'd never listened to him or The Smiths before.
The live show was so awesome. He had a huge marquee that spelled out his name behind him. It glowed in red lights. Morrissey took off his green shirt and threw it into the audience. He changed into a blue shirt, then a brown shirt, then a black shirt through the course of the show. We saw 2 people run up on the stage and touch/hug Morrissey before they were tackled by security. Moz is God.
On Friday night, around 7pm we saw Ryan Adams. He was wearing his usual all-denim outfit, rose-colored glasses, and lugging a gigantic K-Mart bag while yapping
into his cell phone. He looked like he was headed toward Parker's house, since we heard she lives right around the corner from where we were.
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CALLING ALL SNEAKY SNAPPERS!
Another photo request...To anyone who was at the Ramones benefit in NYC the other night, if you've got a shot of Josh Homme with the Strokes please contact us at homme @ themodernage.org and we'll pass along your info to the appropriate contact. PS- Yes, there's compensation for your efforts. That means *money*.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
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REQUEST FOR KINGS OF LEON PICTURES FROM THIS WEEK
Please help out our friends! We've received this request from a pal of ours who works for a very awesome publication: "Any of your photo friends get any shots of Kings of Leon when they played in NY recently? Or any shots of them hanging out in any clubs?...." If you do, please email us at kings @ themodernage.org and we will pass along your info to the appropriate contacts.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
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CLASS OF 2004
We are happy to report our friends Lindsay and Jason both got shoutouts in this year's Village Voice Best of 2004. We like that Lindsay is officially a "character" and Jason was described as specifically NOT being a "scenester."
In other awesome news, Ultragrrrl has become a record label called Stolen Transmission.
Sunday, October 03, 2004
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A POT-SMOKING DRUNK, A GUITAR, AND A LIVE AUDIENCE
Mmmm. More on the October 1, 2004 Ryan Adams concert at the Beacon when we learn to speak the English.
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THIS IS THE STUFF THAT MONISTAT 3 COMMERCIALS ARE MADE OF
Ok, so it's recently been brought to our attention that Minnie Driver has decided she too can make music. But who really cares?--unless you're one of the few who wants to see her in concert. (Link from Beat Royalty.)
We're more interested in the fact that Rounder Records, the parent group of her record label, Zoe Records, has an artist roster that reads like the perfect soundtrack to a commercial for a tampon or yeast infection treatment. Artists like Lisa Loeb (who we used to love...when we were 13...heck--we probably still love her a little.) and non-virgin, Juliana Hatfield, give us that tingly feeling that we know is "just for her."
Hey, remember when they used the song from Run Lola Run for some tampon commercial? That was a low point for us.
In other "vagina-themed" news: the book He's Just Not That Into You has apparently been causing a brew-ha-ha among the aging, burned-my-hair-with-a-flatiron, Sex and the City-types that skitter around New York City.
But this phenomenon is not only segregated to the wee island of Manhattan. Oh noooooo! Apparently this book has choke-holded single women across the country. Who knew that women who were confused about asshole guys in there life existed beyond the borders of the 5 boroughs! Well, we guess you learn something new every day.
Anyway, we can't believe it's taken a book with a pink cover for a certain group of women to discover that if he doesn't call, it's not a good sign. C'mon, you don't need a stupid hardcover to tell you that! Maybe ya'll should be spending more time cultivating your herb garden instead of letting all this "he said she said here's what it means" nonsense fill your brain.
Coincidentally, we're currently working on a book that will tell women when they should take a pee and when to do a crap. Simon & Schuster has already expressed some interest.
SEMI-RELATED LINK: Eddie Izzard doesn't have a cooch, but he probably wishes he did.
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LINKS
NY Times Extravaganza: Gael Garcia Bernal and his hernia surgery; Retrospective of Dan Flavin; Richard Avedon dead at the age of 81; All about Kinsey: The man and the movie
Brian, the fat one from Westlife, looks kinda hot in that picture w/ him with the long hair...although he did lick that less-than-attractive blonde woman. Yick!
Hey Rolling Stone, what's up with the picture of skinny, semi-bored looking members of band hanging out in a generic-looking New York bar? What, didn't you have any throw-away shots from The Strokes' photoshoot for Room on Fire? Oh wait--this one's got flags. Tres international! Ok, we take it back. Paul Banks ain't that skinny (but he sure is purty).
We know OCD-Strokes fans have probably seen these (and maybe we've already seen them ourselves) but here are some shots of The Strokes by Colin Lane (semi-official band photographer).
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PARIS HILTON, YOU DUMB BITCH
Maybe we got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, or maybe it's because we just read all that vitriolic spew (see below) and it's rubbed off on us, but we're about to get nasty. Paris Hilton, you're a dumb bitch. If it is true that you used the word "nigger" as a derogatory term you're off our list of fun, yet harmless pop-culture infatuations. Sure we've all called other people "stupid c*nts", "fugly sluts", "horny bastards" and the like, but who the hell is into racial slurs? Take a note from Jen C. from The Apprentice, playing the race card ain't cool. Link to racial slur item from Lindsay.
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"STOP YELLING!," WE SHOUTED
We've had the mind-numbing misfortune of reading too much about "blogs" this weekend. We started reading that New York Times story about "bloggers" and the presidential campaign that was in the Magazine a week or two ago but then our eyes were about to fall out, so we actually printed it out and read it later. After reading it we couldn't believe that people actually care about this shit. We have no thoughts on that because we don't read politico-blogs.
And just now we clicked on a link somewhere to this site that talks in great detail about other blogs. Now our brain hurts. Reading sh*t about blogs makes us feel like we're reading one continuing Napolean-complex diatribe: "Blogs are important!" "Blogs aren't important!" "Who cares about this stuff?!" "Why do you spend so much time writing about stuff you supposedly don't care about?" "Why don't you just shut up?!" For Christ's sake, you're driving us to alcoholism!
We can't believe we know how to read.
Boring.
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